A TRAGIC AFFAIR.
THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION
FIRST FOR OVER. TWENTY YEARS,
A SAD COINCIDENCE
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, Received July 28, 12.5 p.m. Sydney, July 28.
Both victims of the Metropolitan colliery explosion were married men with one child each. Both were recent arrivals from the Old Country. It is the most tragic mining disaster that has occurred on the South Coast for over twenty years. Immediately after th© explosion the under-manager and assistant-manager descended the pit with their heads swathed in wet cloths and recovered the bodies. A hors© was also killed bv the explosion.
' Exactly a similar disaster occurred in the same colliery twenty-nine years ago, when three men and a horse were killed
Fortunately electric safety lamps were used in the mine, otherwise the catastrophe would have been appalling.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 July 1925, Page 9
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131A TRAGIC AFFAIR. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 July 1925, Page 9
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